Existing comment:
Rupert García
born French Camp, CA 1941
¡Fuera de Indochina!
1970
Screenprint
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Marcus, 1990.1.83
García joined the U.S. Air Force in 1962 and served in Thailand in 1965 and 1966. Upon his return to the United States, he studied art at San Francisco State College, where he joined the antiwar, Chicano art, and Third World Solidarity movements. In ¡Fuera de Indochina!, a brown face either cries out in pain or rallies in defiance, screaming the work's title -- in English, "Get out of Indochina!" García created the print to raise funds for the National Chicano Moratorium, a group that framed its antiwar stance as a civil rights issue, citing statistics that Mexican Americans comprised a disproportionate number of U.S. soldiers and casualties in Vietnam |